FOREST

June 18 – 22, 9 a.m. – noon - This camp is full as of 3/26/12.
4 – 8 year olds
$130
Maximum enrollment: 10
Spend the mornings exploring the wild spaces of the beautiful Larus Park, situated at the edge of the Sabot at Stony Point campus, with Nancy Sowder and Robyn Johnson. The park features an expansive wooded area with trails and a stream. Children will explore the flora and fauna that inhabit the park, build shelters of natural materials, take hikes, and enjoy the trickle of the stream. Participants should come prepared to get muddy and wet in this camp, which takes place entirely out of doors, rain or shine.

TINKERING CAMP
June 25 – 29, 9 a.m. – noon - This camp is full as of 5/17/12.
5 – 8 year olds
$150
Maximum enrollment: 10
Tinkering is the starting point of invention, paving the way to discovery. Tinkering School is an opportunity for young tinkerers to make a plan, realize and idea, build in collaboration using a variety of materials and tools. This week will be spent in the Studio with Anna Golden and Pippin Barnett's (our Caretaker) shop coming up with an idea, tinkering, and taking it through the process of discovery.

SPARKS

SPARKS is a series of one-day workshops that focus on a single theme broad enough for each child to explore on his/her own terms. These workshops provide an opportunity to focus on a single topic and delve deeply into it. Participants explore the theme with a variety of materials and media. You may sign up for as many as you like. Maximum enrollment in any workshop: 12.

Sparkle
Monday, July 2, 9 a.m. – noon
4 – 8 year olds
$50
Design and create your own beautiful one-of-a-kind jewelry. Use beads, wire, sparkles, Shrinky Dinks, and duct tape to make your own fanciful bobbles, necklaces, belts, etc.

Superheroes
Tuesday, July 3, 9 a.m. – noon
4 – 8 year olds
$50
Create your own superhero! Participants will explore what makes a superhero so super and make one. Who is he? What does she do? Where does he live? Write a story. Create a book. Make an action figure. It is up to you, the creator, to decide how to portray your superhero.

Print
Wednesday, July 4, 9 a.m. – noon
4 – 8 year olds
$50
Explore techniques and materials used to make prints: solar printing, mono-printing, and block printing will be featured. Each participant will create a handmade book of his/her prints.

Stitch
Thursday, July 5, 9 a.m. – noon
4 – 8 year olds
$50
Quilts, pillows, puppets, stuffed animals – what do you like to sew? Using hand-sewing techniques and a variety of fabrics, participants will make magnificent hand-crafted creations.

Build
Friday, July 6, 9 a.m. – noon
4 – 8 year olds
$50
Using tools, tape, string and glue with a variety of materials including found objects of wood, cardboard, plastic, and metal, build your own structure, machine, sculpture or contraption.

LIKE SUMMERS USED TO BE with STUDIO

Session 1: July 9 – 13, 9 a.m. – noon
Session 2: July 16 – 20, 9 a.m. – noon
4 – 8 year olds
$140 per session
Maximum enrollment: 25

Playing with water and rocks, building with sticks, having picnics with friends, making fairy houses of natural materials, reading under the shade of a tree – like summers used to be. This camp features unstructured play, gardening, games, and many more choices inspired by camp participants on a warm summer's day. Children love to make things, and we provide media and materials to support individual creations and collaborations that complement the children's play. Past campers have made a fort out of natural materials, boats to sail on a child-dug "river," tiny houses for fairies, yarn weavings, 3-D animals, and more. Children will have the opportunity to play and create both indoors and out.